Advocating for Phone Bans to Foster Healthy Childhoods

Today, I had an insightful interview with Dany Elachi, founder of The Heads Up Alliance, examining the No Phones policy that every school in the country should be implementing—the benefits, the evidence, and the challenges. Dany shares how community is the solution to an issue that so many parents feel they are facing alone—how to say "not yet" to a smartphone and/or social media.

In this episode:

• Forming alliances with other families
• Keeping teens off social media
• Creating a consistent phone-free environment in Australian schools
• Empirical vs anecdotal evidence
• Behavioural challenges in schools
• Mental health, bullying, academic outcomes
• Catholic and Independent Schools
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
•  Dr Michael Carr-Gregg: “A no brainer from the university of bleeding obvious”
• THE HEADS UP ALLIANCE | Instagram, Facebook Linktree

Related Links:

• Unplug Childhood
• #980 The Anxious Generation With Jonathan Haidt
• Pixel Perfect [Webinar]

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